Created Wed 23rd Jan 7:32am PST by
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Will Arctic summers be ice-free by 2012?
Current forecast: 18% chance

Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 18% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
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As reported by New York Times
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Initial likelihoods: Yes: 48%
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score: 10
Guardian Unlimited 1 day ago
change report, published yesterday, is long, detailed and impressive. It has the admirable objective of trying to cap global warming at two degrees or a little more. This, it says, means that greenhouse gas pollution in the UK should fall by 80% by 2050
score: 10
Guardian Unlimited 1 day ago
change report, published yesterday, is long, detailed and impressive. It has the admirable objective of trying to cap global warming at two degrees or a little more. This, it says, means that greenhouse gas pollution in the UK should fall by 80% by 2050
score: 10
MarketWatch 1 day ago
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global Warming, Climate Change catch the whole world's attentions. All countries implement GHG (Green House Gas) reduction strategies. Furthermore, the mayors of big cities take on reduction responsibilities to promote
score: 10
ABC News 1 day ago
The global financial crisis already has delayed some green energy projects, stoking fears that a shortage of investment money will lead to cheap and dirty decisions on new power plants, the U.N.'s top climate official said. But
score: 10
San Francisco Chronicle 2 days ago
Skeptics believed that the fiscal crisis would force Obama to put his plans to address global warming on the back burner. But in a videotaped speech to a climate summit co-hosted by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month, Obama said, 'Now is
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and Ice on the same day in 2008 looks like this: http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif I think the answer is clearly NO..IT WILL NOT. Because we are gaining ice..not losing it.
I got to go with NO on this. We are growing ice..not losing it..Plenty of room for those polar bears. an additional 3 million miles of ice for them to walk on this time over last year
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